Musical attachment for clocks



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E. L. GUENDET. MUSICAL ATTACHMENT FOR GLOCKS.

6. Patented Oct. 3, 1893.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMILE L. OUENDET, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

MUSICAL ATTACHMENT FOR CLOCKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 506,101, dated October 3, 1893.

Application filed March 24, 1892. Serial No. 426,215. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EMILE L. CUENDET, a citizen of the Swiss Republic, and a resident of Brooklyn, Kings county, New York, have invented certain Improvements in Musical Attachments for Clocks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of an improved and simple form of music box attachment for clocks, designed principally with the view of lessening the cost of applying such music box attachments to clocks as now constructed.

Music boxes have heretofore been combined with clocks, as I am aware, but in all such cases, special devices have had to be provided in the clock mechanism to operate the detent lever of the pin cylinder of the music box.

Now the main feature of my improvement consists in so combining the music box with the striking hammer of the clock that the striking hammer will itself operate the detent lever of the pin cylinder of the music box, as hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a face View of a clock constructed in accordance with my invention, but with the front plate or door removed. Fig. 2 is a rear view of a modified form of clock provided with my improvement, the rear door being removed.

My invention is applicable to many various constructions of clocks, which are provided with striking mechanisms, and two different forms are illustrated in the drawings. In each case there is a striking hammer H, to be operated by any wellknown form of striking mechanism at the hours or half hours, as the case may be. The gongin both cases is shown as consisting of a coil of wire G, but any other well known equivalent may of course be used. The music box B on the other hand may be of any suitable construction in detail, but as usual it is provided with a spring-operated r0- tating pin-barrel Z), normally locked by a detent lever a.

In the construction shown in Fig. 1, the detent lever is itself provided with an upwardly turned extension at which lies in the path of the striking hammerH, so that when this hammer is operated by the clock mechanism to strike the gong at the hour or half hour it moves the detent lever a, as indicated by dotted lines, so as to release the pin barrel of the music box. Under the operation of its spring, this barrel then rotates for a revolution and plays a tune, by which time the movements of the striking hammer will have ceased, and the detent at will at the end of the revolution of the barrel, be ready to arrest the further movement of the barrel until the striking mechanism is again operated.

In the modification shown in Fig. 2, the detent lever a of the music box is acted on by the striking hammer H through the medium of a bell crank lever a, instead of directly, but the operation is the same as before, as will be readily understood.

I claim as my invention The combination with a clock having a striking mechanism of a music box mechanism, a bell crank lever between said music box mechanism and the striking hammer, a detent upon the music box mechanism, a spring normally pressing said detent in contact with one arm of the bellcrank lever and pressing the other arm'in contact with the striking hammer whereby the hammer strikes said bell crank lever and releases the detent to set the music box in operation, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EMILE L. CUENDET.

WVitnesses:

JAS. L. SKIDMORE, HUBERT I-IoWsoN. 

